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@eine eee etmt @Hire IRVNE CARMAN, OF SCHOOLCRAFT, MICHIGAN. Letters Patent No. 70,954, dated November 19, 1867.

IMPROVEMENT IN HORSE-SHOES.

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TO ALL WHOM IT MAY COCERi:

Be it known that I, IRVINE CARMAN, of Schools-raft, in the count-y of Kalamazoo, und State of Michigan, have invented n new and improved Snow Horse-Shoe; and I do hereby declare that the following is a. full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable others skilled in the nrt to make and use thesame, vreference being had te the :iceompnnying drawings, forming part of this speciiiction. I

This inrention relates to ant improvement in snow horse-shoes, :ind consists of a. spring plared beneath the hoof, with a. ruhher between it andthe hoof. In the accompanying drawings- Figure 1 is a. top view o' my improved snow horse-shoe. and

Figure 2 a section'thereof through the spring und rubber at the line x 2:.

Similar letters of reference indicate like parts.

A is the ordinary horse-shoe; B is n spring of steel or other suitable material expanding in the form oi' the bolvl of a table-spon, as shown in the drawing, und fitting into the .mertises da in the wells ofthe sl1i: e,-h nvinl n plny of about one-fourth el' un inch at each end. C is :Leeft eblong ruhheriirting upon the bowl of the spring,

and having on its under side a groove, e c, on each side of the rubber C, to fit the lspring B, by which it is locked in pince. d is a.A depression in the rubber to fit the hoof, against which it sets snugly. Being n trifle higher than the upper surface of the shoe, n'o dirt cnn collent between the hoof und the spring. The shoe being adjusted, having the spring and rubber irplaee, when the Weight of the horse is on the spring, the rubber gives by the pressure of the letter, but when the fout is lifted, 'the steel spring flies back and throws oi any snow which may' have collected.

What I claim ns new, and desire to secure by Letters Partant, is-f l. The spring B, fitting into the walls of the shoe, substantially nis shown and described.

2.l The combination ef the rubber C with the spring B, substantially* as shown nud described.

IRVINE CARMAN.

Witnesses:

C. F. WHEELER, Geo. R. JAMES. 

